Water-closet valve for cars.



0. W. PEARSALL. WATER CLOSET VALVE FOB, CARS. APPLICATION FILED MAY 1,1907. RENEWED FEB.

1a, 1o oa. Patented. May 18, 1909.

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' at Binghamton, in the county of Broome and compartment.

tachcd to the water closet outlet by means of TTNTTED IFATENT CHARLES W.PEAltSALL, OF BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO l". 'EEBE A. PEA RSALL,

()l BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK.

WATER-CLOSET VALVE FOR CARS.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented May 18, 1909.

Application filed. May 1, 1907, Serial No. 371,23. Renewed February 18,1309. Serial No. 17K619.

, board ll is mounted within or withoutthe car closet and on any part ofthe car most convenient. Over this pulley 1 place the lever chain J. Ihang also within the cupboard and from the upper portion of the cupboardframe the coiled spring K and from I which is suspended the forkedclutch .lJ. The chain J extends down through the bottom of the cupboardor out ofthe cupboard, and has connection With the rod M which extendsdown through the floor of the car coin necting with the bifurcated leverN. The bifurcated lever N is forked at the point 0 and divided into twoarms N and N. I These arms N and N have hinged connec- To all whom itmay concern:

Be it known that 1, UnAnLEs W. PEAR- SALL, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in- Water- Closet Valves for Cars, of which the followingis a specification. l My invention relates to im )rovements in j valvesfor water closet-s in rai road cars, and in which a hinged valvecontrolled by a coiled l spring is operated by means of a hinged lever lextending up through the bottom of the car and connecting with a forkedspring clutch mounted within a closet cupboard or locked tions P and Pwith the closet valve B. When in its normal position the valve'B beingopen, the door of the cupboard Q is closed and locked.

W hen it is desired to close the closet valve, the operator unlocks thedoor Q and opens it. He then draws the lever chain J over the pulley Gand thus raises the lever rod M and its hin edconnecting rodN until thecloset valve is c osed and drawn up by the forked lever arms N and N.Having thus drawn up the hinged valve B, he then draws down the s ringclutch L attached to the coiled spring 1% as shown in Fig. 4 until thiscoiled spring is at a stiff tension. Then he pushes in the spring clutchL against the guard. chain J until the guard chain J is thus firmly heldby the clutch fork arms R and S as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 4, and thus thechain is lirmly held and with it the lever arm M in a firm yieldingtension drawing up tightly the closet valve B. The door Q is then closedand locked and thus preventing any interference with the closed closetvalve while the train is standing at a station. And it is my design andplan that the cupboard or locking compartment ll shall be mounted orconstructed in any convenient place on or in a wall of the car, so thatthe door Q can be opened and the valve operated even though the carcloset is occupied by a passenger. On the train leaving the station theguard unlocks the door Q, releases the clutch L from the chain Gwhereupon the lever rod M drops down and thevalve B opens and swingsback to its normal position as shown in Fig. 1.

Thus having fully described my invention, What 1 claim as new and forwhich l. desire Letters Patent is as follows:

1. In combination a railroad car closet The objects of my improvementare to provide an easily operated stop valve for a railroad watercloset, so as to readily and com. pletely close the outlet of the closetwhile the car is standing at a station, and thus do away with-thonecessity of locking up the closet; but permitting it to be freely usedby the passengers, yet at the same time roviding a closing and o eningmeans, capalii le of being used and un er the control of the railroademployees; while at the same time it is comlctely guarded against beingused or inter fered with by the passenger or public. I attain theseobjects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings inwhich Figure 1 is a perspectivewiew of an operative portion of mydevicc.- Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a detached portion of mydevice. Fig. 3 is a horizontal plan view of the valve crtion of mydevice. Fig. 4 is a detache portion of my device showing its connectingparts in operation.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout, the several views.

A represents an ordinary water closet seat and bowl in a railroad car.At the lower end of the outlet pipe I have the stop valve B atthe hingeC. This valve consists of a round plate to which is attached a rubber orother yielding surface T. This valve B is held in an o' in position asshownf i by means of tli coiled spring D shown in r 1 extcnding from theprojection E on the side of the closet outlet to the projection i at thark of the closet valve. Imount wi thin th set, or outside the closetthe pulley l} hung with in the cupboard H by the pulleyhangerl. The cupl extending into the the mouth of the chute, a spring for normallykeeping valve open, a compartment, means for lock- 1 ing the same,actuating members for the valve compartment and means in the compartmentcooperating with said; members to hold the valve in closed position.

2. In combination, a railroad car closet seat chute, a valve for closingthe mouth of the chute, a spring for normally holdin the valve open, acompartment, means-for ocking the same, a pulley in said compartment, achain passing over said pulley and out of the compartment, rodsconnecting the chain with the valve'and means in said compartmentengaging with the chain for locking the valve in closed position.

3. In combination a railroad closet seat chute, a hinged valve attachedto the chute near the mouth of the same said valve having a rubber orother yielding surface on its face and so shaped and positioned as tofit over themouth of. the chute when closed against the mouth, saidvalve being held open in its usual position by ,means of a s iral springconnection between the valve an the side of the chute ,'a series ofhinged rods terminating said rods he hinged in a chain connection with apulley; having 'a hinged connection with t valve by meansof two arms inhinged'conneetion with the valve;

compartment for grasping and holding chain extension in afirm positionafter It has drawn u the valve of the-chute, for'the pur a forked clutchsuspended by a spiral spring within the locking

